LEADER 05163nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910145292503321 005 20230721030813.0 010 $a1-281-30979-6 010 $a9786611309794 010 $a0-470-72372-6 010 $a0-470-72371-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000403811 035 $a(EBL)351243 035 $a(OCoLC)437218527 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189266 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11196662 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189266 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10156014 035 $a(PQKB)10170718 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC351243 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000403811 100 $a20070611d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLarge rivers$b[electronic resource] $egeomorphology and management /$fedited by Avijit Gupta 210 $aChichester, England ;$aHoboken, NJ $cJohn Wiley$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (730 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-470-84987-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLarge Rivers: Geomorphology and Management; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1: Introduction; 1.1 A BOOK ON LARGE RIVERS; 1.2 WHAT IS A LARGE RIVER?; 1.3 THE BOOK AND ITS CONTENT; REFERENCES; PART I: BACKGROUND; 2: Geology of Large River Systems; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 TECTONIC SETTINGS OF LARGE RIVER SYSTEMS; 2.2.1 Rivers in Continental Collision Belts; 2.2.2 Rivers in Rift Settings; 2.2.3 Rivers in Cratonic Settings; 2.3 COMPLEXITY OF DRAINAGE TYPES; 2.4 LARGE RIVERS - CLIMATIC SETTINGS AND CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; 2.5 MODERN LARGE RIVERS - HYDROLOGY AND SEDIMENT DISPERSAL 327 $a2.6 VARIABILITY IN THE ALLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE OF LARGE RIVER SYSTEMS2.6.1 Longitudinal Trunk Systems; 2.6.2 Radial Fans; 2.6.3 Fan-Interfan Setting; 2.6.4 Interfluves; 2.7 GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE RIVER SYSTEMS; 2.8 DURATION OF LARGE RIVER SYSTEMS AND THE ROCK RECORD; 2.9 SEA LEVEL, TECTONIC AND CLIMATIC CONTROLS ON THE LARGE RIVER SYSTEMS; 2.10 CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 3: Hydrology and Discharge; 3.1 HYDROLOGY OF LARGE RIVER BASINS; 3.2 LARGE RIVERS OF THE EQUATORIAL REGIONS; 3.2.1 Amazon River; 3.2.2 Congo River; 3.2.3 Zambezi River 327 $a3.3 LARGE RIVERS OF THE DRYLANDS3.3.1 Nile River; 3.3.2 Indus River; 3.3.3 Colorado River; 3.3.4 Murray-Darling River; 3.4 RIVERS OF THE MID-LATITUDES; 3.4.1 Mississippi River; 3.4.2 Danube River; 3.5 RIVERS DRAINING SOUTH FROM THE HIMALAYA; 3.5.1 Ganga River; 3.5.2 Brahmaputra River; 3.6 RIVERS OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA; 3.6.1 Huanghe; 3.6.2 Changjiang; 3.6.3 Mekong River; 3.7 HIGH-LATITUDE RIVERS; 3.7.1 Ob, Yenisey and Lena Rivers; 3.7.2 Mackenzie and Yukon Rivers; 3.8 SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES 327 $a4: Transcontinental Moving and Storage: the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers Transfer the Andes to the Atlantic*4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 ANDEAN SOURCES AND ALLUVIAL STORAGE; 4.3 ORINOCO; 4.4 AMAZON; 4.4.1 Setting; 4.4.2 Storage and Remobilization of Floodplain Sediment; 4.4.3 Sediment Storage in the Lowermost Amazon Valley; 4.5 THE AMAZON GOES TO SEA; 4.6 CODA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 5: Greatest Floods and Largest Rivers; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; 5.3 TERRESTRIAL GLACIAL MEGAFLOODS; 5.3.1 Cordilleran Ice Sheet; 5.3.2 Laurentide Ice Sheet; 5.3.3 Eurasia Ice Sheets 327 $a5.3.4 Central Asian Mountains5.4 EXTRATERRESTRIAL MEGAFLOODS AND MEGARIVERS; 5.5 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 6: Classification, Architecture, and Evolution of Large-river Deltas; 6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 DEFINITION OF A DELTA AND DELTA COMPONENTS; 6.3 CLASSIFICATION OF DELTAS; 6.4 MORPHOLOGY AND SEDIMENT; 6.4.1 Morphology; 6.4.2 Sediments and Sediment Facies; 6.4.3 Sediment Accumulation Rates; 6.5 DELTA EVOLUTION; 6.5.1 Response to Holocene Sea-Level Change; 6.5.2 Changes in the Course of a River Channel and of its Distributaries; 6.5.3 Coastal Environment Change Related to Delta Progradation 327 $a6.6 PROBLEMS OF SEDIMENT SUPPLY 330 $aLarge Rivers: Geomorphology and Management explores an important topic in geomorphology and sedimentology: the form and function of major rivers. Our knowledge of the big rivers of the world is limited. It is currently difficult to recognise large rivers of the past from relict sedimentary deposits or to structure management policies for long international rivers. This exciting book brings together a set of papers on large rivers of the world, as a unique introduction to a demanding subject. The book includes thirty chapters and is organised into three sections. The first part is on 606 $aEnvironmental management 606 $aGeomorphology 606 $aRivers 615 0$aEnvironmental management. 615 0$aGeomorphology. 615 0$aRivers. 676 $a551.48/3 676 $a551.483 701 $aGupta$b Avijit$0130823 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910145292503321 996 $aLarge rivers$92190116 997 $aUNINA